Additional Weblinks

Below are additional weblinks relevant to this chapter's topics:

Neonatal Research
Extensive information about many topics in neonatal research, including preterm infants, feeding, neonatal infection, massage therapy, non-nutritive sucking, pain and other topics.

• http://www.nichd.nih.gov/search.htm

Touch Research Institute
Find out more about the benefits of massage therapy with high-risk infants. Touchpoints, a quarterly newsletter published by the Touch Research Institute, can be read on this web site.

• http://www.miami.edu/touch-research/home.html

Postpartum Resources
Describes what life is like for parents after the baby is born, coping with fatigue, emotions, exercise, support, and other postpartum topics.

• http://pregnancy.miningco.com/msub16htm

Fathers and Childbirth
A father's comments about childbirth, fathers, postpartum depression, diaper changing, "pregnant">athers, and what it means to be a father.

• http://pregnancy.miningco.com/msubdad.htm

SIDS
The website of the National SIDS Resource Center with links to information about many aspects of SIDS.

• http://www.circsol.com/SIDS/

Perceptual Development
An excellent website that describes perceptual development during prenatal development, at birth, and in the first two years of life.

• http://www.hon.ch/Dossier/MotherChild/postnatal/senses_percept.html

Newborns' Senses
Describes vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch in the newborn.

• http://kidshealth.org/parent/growth/senses/sensenewborn.html

Richard Aslin's Research
Richard Aslin describes his research interests in perceptual development and lists representative publications ranging from infants' perception of motion to the perception of object unity.

• http://www.bcs.rochester.edu/bcs/people/faculty/r_aslin/r_aslin.html

Infant Crying
Explore cry recording and analysis techniques, recent developments in cry research, and other related topics.

• http://www.siu.edu/: in the search engine type "infant crying."

Learning from Infants' Cries
An interview with leading infant researcher Barry Lester reveals how a baby's cries can be a window to the brain.

• http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/v20/v20n05/research_notes.html